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Adolescent Parenthood and Education

Michigan State University Series on Children, Youth, and Families
(Vol. 2)

Garland Reference Library of Social Science
(Vol. 1004)

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY SERIES ON CHILDREN, YOUTH, AND FAMILIES

John Paul McKinney, Senior Editor
Lawrence B. Schiamberg, Amy B. Slonin, and Linda Spence,
Associate Editors

Child Maltreatment and Optimal Caregiving in Social Contexts
by Diana Baumrind

Adolescent Parenthood and Education
Exploring Alternative Programs
by Mary Pilat

Adolescent Parenthood and Education

Exploring Alternative Programs

Mary Pilat

First published 1997

by Garland Publishing, Inc.

Published 2013

by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN
711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

Copyright 1997 by Mary Pilat

All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-315-80547-4 (eISBN)

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Pilat, Mary.
Adolescent parenthood and education: exploring alternative
programs / by Mary Pilat.
p. cm. (Michigan State University series on children,
youth, and families; v. 2) (Garland reference library of social
science; v. 1004)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8153-1884-7 (alk. paper)
1. Pregnant schoolgirlsEducationUnited States. 2. Teenage
mothersEducationUnited States. 3. Alternative education
United States. I. Title. II. Series. III. Series: Garland reference
library of social science; v. 1004.
LC4091.P496 1997
371.96'7dc20 96-35890
CIP

For Veronica, Lee-Anne, and Sara

Service delivery to pregnant and parenting teens is a complex system of individual and organizational stakeholders in a dynamic setting.

Adolescent parenting is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be lived.

Contents

Chapter One A Practitioner's Perspective

Chapter Two A Researcher's Perspective

Chapter Three The Setting

Chapter Four The Alternative Education Center for Young Mothers

Chapter Five The Voice of Adolescent Parents

Chapter Six The Voice of Support People

Chapter Seven The Voice of Direct-Service Providers

Chapter Eight The Voice of Administrators

Chapter Nine The Voice of Policymakers

Chapter Ten Summary and Recommendations

Chapter Eleven Alternative Education

Chapter Twelve A Comparison of the Models

Chapter Thirteen A Portrait from Practice

Chapter Fourteen Recent Trends

Chapter Fifteen Points to Consider

Appendix A Research Design

Appendix B Protocol for Interviews with Policymakers

Appendix C Community Demographic Data SheetDocuments and Archival Materials Checklist

Appendix D Data Sheets for Clients and Family Support

Appendix E Survey of Students

Appendix F Protocol for Interviews with Service Providers

Appendix G Protocol for Interviews with Program Administrators

Appendix H Form for Observational Notes

Appendix I Tutorial Procedures and Forms

Appendix J Demographics for Client Living Arrangements and the Outreach Program

Appendix K Child Care Requirements

Appendix L Alternative Education Center for Young Parents: Educational and Vocational Profile of 232 Cases (January through December 1989)

The publication of Mary Pilat's volume, Adolescent Parenthood and Education: Exploring Alternative Programs, signals the continued successful development of the Michigan State University Series on Children, Youth, and Families. Pilat s scholarly work exemplifies the intent of the books in the MSU Seriesa focus on issues of social policy, program design and delivery, and evaluation that address the needs of a diversity of children, youth, families, and communities.

Mary Pilat's volume is also a clear illustration of the goals of the Institute for Children, Youth, and Families (ICYF), which initiated the series, in particular as an example of the relationship of outreach scholarship to policy issues and intervention design. The mission of the Institute for Children, Youth, and Families at MSU is based on a vision of the nature of a land-grant institution as an academic unit with a responsibility for addressing the welfare of children, youth, and families in communities. More specifically, the mission of ICYF is shaped by an ecological perspective to human development that places the life span development of human beings in the context of the significant settings of human experience, including community, family, work and peer networks (Lerner, et al., 1994; Schiamberg, 1985, 1988). Historically, the ecological perspective has been both associated with, and a guiding frame for, colleges of home economics or, as they are more recently termed, colleges of human ecology, human development, or family and consumer sciences (Miller & Lerner, 1994).

Using the ecology of human development perspective as a conceptual framework, ICYF continues to develop programs that integrate the critical notion of development in context with the attempt, indeed the necessity, of creating connections between such scholarship and social policy, program design, delivery, and evaluation.

The MSU Series, under the committed and scholarly leadership of Senior Editor John Paul McKinney and the able guidance of Marie Ellen Larcada of Garland Publishing, provides a vehicle for the communication of collaborative research and outreach efforts. The series publishes reference and professional books, including monographs and edited volumes, that appeal to a wide audience in communities and universities, including such constituent groups as scholars, practitioners, service deliverers, child and family advocates, business leaders, and policymakers.

The unique role and perspective of both ICYF and the MSU Series can be further appreciated in light of ongoing and persisting trends for both university accountability and social contribution. In particular, the various university stakeholders, including business, government, and community leadership, are increasingly urging universities to use their research and scholarly resources to address problems of social, political, and technological relevance (Boyer, 1990; Votruba, 1992). Thus, communities are seeking a greater involvement in outreach on the part of their universities. The Institute for Children, Youth, and Families and Michigan State University are both committed to integrating outreach into the full fabric of university responsibility (Provosts Committee on University Outreach, 1993; Lerner and Simon, in press).

Mary Pilat's work is a valuable contribution to this emerging outreach/research focus. Adolescent Parenthood and Education represents the careful thinking of an author who has worked, first hand, with community programs that reflect both success and "best practice" in the field of adolescent parenting. There is a compelling need for intervention programs that reflect such careful thinking and best practice in addressing the circumstances of adolescent mothers who face not only the developmental issues of their offspring but the challenges of their own adolescence as well.

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